The Tour Chronology: 2013

MKB [consisting of MK, BB, RM and JT] tour Europe in late March and early April. First time the MKB tours Europe.

In May MK joins Joe Satriani for a 3 month European tour, bringing along Bryan Beller and Marco Minnemann. So basically KMB, fronted by Satriani. Followed by the Joe Satriani USA tour (August-October) and then in December a Mike Keneally Band California tourrette. Between the Satriani tours grab your chance to see Bryan’s band The Aristocrats in action.

The Tour Chronology: 2013

January 5 2013 – private, Cardiff-By-The-Sea, CA
A PRIVATE HOUSE CONCERT with Mike Keneally and Rick Musallam
playing music from Mike’s new album co-written with Andy Partridge Wing Beat Fantastic and more
personnel: MK, RM
setlist:
tape:

Mike Keneally Band
in Europe!

note from MK:
“As you’ve noticed we’re doing this tour as a quartet, as logistics made it impossible to do it with any more musicians, and I do want to say a special word to Griff Peters, the hugely valued fifth member of the 5-man Keneally Band, who plays a gorgeous guitar and will be very much missed on this journey.”

March 22 2013 – Night ‘n Day, Manchester, UK
personnel: MK, BB, RM, JT
setlist: Frozen Beef, Pride Is A Sin, I’m Raining Here Inside, Bobeau, Hum, Backwards Deb, You Kill Me, Tranquillado, Your House, Dolphins/1988/Bullys/Voyage To Manhood, Seven Percent Grade, Spoonguy/Uglytown, Cause Of Breakfast. Encore: Potato [info by Stephen Willerton/Kieran Fleck]
tape: audio and video 123
MK comments [fb]:
“Really enjoyed the show in Manchester last night even though the horrible weather in the UK at the moment was a definite dampener – I’m very sorry about the nearly 40 pre-paid ticket holders who weren’t able to make it to the show because of road closures. We’ll try to make it back at a nicer time of the year next time, but who could have predicted the weather would be like this?
Somehow the weather didn’t pose much of a problem for us getting to Manchester yesterday, or to Newcastle today, but it may have been a factor in the half-hour wait for a cab to get us from the hotel to the venue in time for the gig.
Manchester audiences are special. Many who spoke to me after the show were shaking with emotion, grateful that we were able to make it, but one guy in the audience was apparently saying “where’s Guthrie?” (meaning Guthrie Govan, genius guitarist with Bryan’s band The Aristocrats and absolute sweetheart) during the show. My delicate sensibilities were protected at the time by earplugs and hearing damage, but Bryan was ready to hop off the stage and do other sorts of damage to the guy. He’s very protective of me, it’s quite sweet. I wished in retrospect that I had heard him because it would have been nice to answer on the spot with the only proper response: “he’s on the road with Steven Wilson, and why on earth did you expect to see him at a Keneally show, you daft cunt?””

March 23 2013 – The Cluny, Newcastle, UK
With Matt Stevens
personnel: MK, BB, RM, JT
setlist: Frozen Beef, Backwards Deb, Skunk/Top Of Stove Melting, Tranquillado, You Kill Me, Dolphins/Bullys/Choosing To Drown, I’m Raining Here Inside, Seven Percent Grade, Bobeau, Hum, Your House, Hallmark, Cowlogy, Cause Of Breakfast [info by Stephen Willerton]
tape:
notes: Stephen wrote: “And it was one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to!”
MK comments [fb]:
“Last night in Newcastle: best show of the tour. Played to the smallest audience (of course – that’s always the way it goes). Many, many thanks to an absolutely beautiful crowd, and to the wonderful Matt Stevens for a magical opening set. Godsticks were brilliant too, as usual.”

March 24 2013 – The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
personnel: MK, BB, RM, JT
setlist: Frozen Beef, Quimby/Top Of Stove Melting, I’m Raining Here Inside, Hallmark, Hum, Wing Beat Fantastic, Seven Percent Grade, You Kill Me, Tranquillado, Pride Is A Sin, Your House, Dolphins/Lightnin’ Roy, Cowlogy, Cause Of Breakfast. Encore (as requested by someone* in the crowd): My Dilemma” [info by Stephen Willerton]
tape:
*I received this e-mail from Enrico Iorio:
“My name is Enrico and I came form Italy (Bergamo, a city near Milan) especially to see MKB in Edinburgh.It was definitely the best live music experience of my life.At the end of the show Mike asks: “any request?” And I yelled “MY DILEMMA!” And he said: “Good call!” and the band starts an unbelievable version of the song.I am not on facebook (my girlfriend and soon to be wife Daniela Brioli is on FB …I’m quite a “parasite”).So, please, can you indicate my name “for the History” on the MK tour chronology?Thanks, I appreciate…Enrico Iorio”
MK comments [fb 03/27/2013]:
“Edinburgh two nights ago: another beautifully heartfelt reception from a wonderful bunch of folks. The sound of my guitar where I was standing onstage was unbelievably weird and everything I did to try to mitigate it made it worse – but apparently it didn’t come across that way to the crowd, so it was some strange out-of-phase amalgam of my amp, the monitors and the PA speaker which was hanging directly above my head and which I heard at least as well as the monitor. I still had a good time but felt sad that I was delivering this miserable simulacrum of a “guitar tone” to such a wonderful crowd, but Darran Charles of Godsticks, who would never shy away from telling me if something is horribly wrong, and in fact might even relish it as a means of supporting his worldview that EVERYTHING is horribly wrong, said that it sounded fantastic in the room. In other words, phew!
That was the fifth of five gigs in a row in the UK, and the last – thank you all who attended, helped, TRIED to attend (sorry again Manchester), or were in any way a part of the gigs. Yes, in response to the many who asked – we’ll be back.
Then we drove for thirteen hours in the van while Joe Travers alternately DJ’d and VJ’d (yes! A DVD player in the van which actually works, but is set safely back in the vehicle so as not to distract whoever is driving, which is either Steve or Darran from Godsticks – believe me when I say there is NO WAY this tour would be happening were it not for Godsticks’ gobsmacking generosity), slept in Dover, then ferried yesterday from Dover to the continent and drove another seven or so hours to Tilburg here.”

March 27 2013 – Paradox, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Also the world premiere of MK’s composition “Metrolinofenagea”, a piece for 4 saxophones, performed by the Dutch Koh-I-Noor Saxofoonkwartet.
personnel: MK, BB, RM, JT
setlist: Frozen Beef, Backwards Deb, Hallmark, Hum, I’m Raining Here Inside, Choosing To Drown, Bobeau, You Kill Me, Tranquillado, Quimby>Stove, Seven Percent, Your House, Dolphins>Lightnin’Roy, Cowlogy, Cause Of Breakfast. Encores: Spoonguy (vocal/instrumental), Uglytown [info by AA and Dennis Versteeg, who came to the rescue because the photo I took of the setlist was incomplete, and I’m not good at this kind of stuff]
tape: audio broadcast on Dutch Radio6 on June 2, guerilla audio 12 and video exist [paul berkholst youtube]
notes: The Chronologist was present. Also check out Frank Hurkmans’ review for The Blues Alone.
MK comments [fb 03/28/2013]:
“Not much time to write, but last night in Tilburg was ferocious, and I’ll post a small excerpt later from the sax quartet run-through (and maybe a small bit of footage of Bryan sleeping on the floor of a laundromat) […]”

MK comments [fb 03/30/2013]:
“Oh, but I am so behind in my writings. The day after Tilburg rattled us a bit (strange sound onstage making it difficult for our rhythm section lads to communicate with one another in a full-on hands-across-the-stage Vulcan-Coltrane-mind-soul-melding), we had a glorious night in Weinheim, Germany, the best show of the tour, for us anyway. Then, still riding that wave we had an awfully fun evening at the Paradiso in Amsterdam last night (doubly inspired by having Joe Travers leap out of the van in the middle of a traffic jam on the way from Weinheim to Amsterdam, and do some robot dancing on the street – far too quickly for any of us to get our cameras out to document it, alack).
Now we’ve arrived in Heiligenhaus. Will you? Will you?”

April 2 2013 – Kellerperle, Würzburg, Germany
personnel: MK, BB, RM, JT
setlist:
tape:
notes:
MK comments [fb 04/02/2013]: “Tomorrow night we play Würzburg. April 22 will be the 25th anniversary of me being forced to do a pretty ridiculous Johnny Cash impersonation and sing the wrong words to “Ring Of Fire” at a Zappa show in Würzburg, so I think there’s a good chance I’ll do it again at this gig, ’cause why not. I could take the opportunity to right a 25-year old wrong and actually learn the proper lyrics to the song. Wonder how that’ll go.”

April 3 2013 – Spirit of 66, Verviers, Belgium
personnel: MK, BB, RM, JT
setlist:
tape:
notes:
MK comments [fb 04/03/2013]: “Godsticks have been playing a beautiful version of Zappa’s “Echidna’s Arf (Of You)” on this tour – I’ll be joining them on the song, tonight at Spirit of 66 in Verviers, Belgium.”